@kdfrawg You made them, and you shall unmake them.
@bazbt3 Because family talk back, unlike brands. (And depending on the family, the relatives also do better soap opera drama.)
Also: Careful with that Like button. The Algorithm is watching.
@bazbt3 Yes. Next easy question?
ETA: Probably more hopeful than ignorant here. A like is basically free for them; and we have the fine example of government-run lotteries to prime them for the "give a bit for probably nothing" trade as normal.
@indigo The why would be people or politics, I expect.
I don't have a Mastodon or other GNU Social account myself; Pnut and 10C and other stuff that predates it have my bases covered, and I haven't run into a group I want to talk to that's just on these other networks yet. If that changes, I figure I can join up then.
/@phoneboy @larand
@indigo Instance = Installation of the software that people can connect to and create accounts on.
Average users need an account somewhere to be able to participate. You probably don't need to run your own instance.
It's kinda like, do you need to run WordPress.com, or do you just want a blog?
/@phoneboy @larand
@dgold NPM's ecosystem tends to be a fan of "microlibraries", which sometimes are just a single function. It gets pretty crazy. Lots of "I really hope my dependencies did due diligence because heck if I'm wading through that mess."
I'll say this for NPM, though: it feels pretty snappy. I haven't had a chance to try yarn yet, but it should even improve on that. Meanwhile, bundle install is practically code for "go grab a coffee". Maven and Hackage also feel very slow to me.
/@JeremyCherfas
@JeremyCherfas A lock file records precise versions for every dependency in the entire dependency graph. A long lock file means the project has a lot of libraries it depends on (each of which has its own maintainers (you hope), bugs, security vulnerabilities, etc).
This happens a lot with Rails projects pulling in oodles of Ruby gems; evidently PHP has since adopted this approach as well. To me, it looks like one more step along the legacy PHP design path. [eev.ee]
@JeremyCherfas Ah, CMS. I haven't looked closely at those. I know work evaluated them for their needs and went with Cloud Cannon recently.
That composer.lock file has a length worthy of a Rails project. PHP has a gift. >.>
/@matigo
@matigo Weird, getting a totally blank page at https://10centuries.org/post/137880 Corresponds to parent post. Watch adding to the thread now unbreak it. ;)
ETA: Nope, still blank. For better or worse.